It's amazing, for so many years parents have been buying toys for their children "only the best"- most popular for my child. Then, after all that money was spent the child played with the box longer than the toy!!
With all the toy recalls in the past couple days it make me think (again) Kids are smarter than we think!
I remember as a child playing with cardboard boxes - it could be a house, space ship, car, train, store, etc...... anything! & the games we played with just a piece of rope. I was reminded of one the other day when the local library hired a guy to come & play "wild & crazy" games with the children (the point being that they get out & move.) IT was the game we played as children - where you hold the rope behind you- your tail & everyone has to run around and try to get your tail. If they get your tail then it's their turn to be the "Monkey" or "Lion" or whatever you want to call it.
What happened to all the games we used to play- We had huge imaginations because we didn't have everything all "shaped" out for us. We didn't need a toy microphone to pretend to be singers we could just pick up a large pine cone & sing into it. Maybe that is why children have a much harder time with imagination & make believe & why they are "growing up" so much faster in today's world.
What do you think?
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